Hemp Processing

Hemp Processing

Tim Hammerich
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with you Farm of the Future Report.

Hemp derived products have become more and more popular with consumers, but passing that value back to growers has been somewhat hit or miss. Darren Bondar and his team at HEMPALTA are helping extract more value from this crop using some Canadian-built technology.

Bondar… “Canadian Greenfield Technology has built what's called the Hemp Train. And what it does is it takes these thousand pound bales that are currently waste on farmer's fields, essentially. And separates them into four different streams, which we then are able to use for, I mean, there's 25,000+ different commercial uses for industrial hemp.”

Bondar says the stalks that they process are what’s left over after the hemp seed is harvested.

Bondar… “We basically take after the hemp is being cultivated for the seed, which is becoming more and more popular for hemp oil. Really, the farmer does not know what to do with the bales. So we run the bales through the Hemp Train and we get hurd and micro hurd. And then we also get what we call green micro fiber. Which is, you know, a nutrient rich stream. And then we also get about a 75 to 80% clean fiber, which then can be used for various things from textiles to insulation or hemp wood once it goes through a further processing.”

HEMPALTA has developed a line of consumer products using their system.

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